baby girl

Our baby daughter has made it to our world. Sophia Roselinn Hauke was born on June 22nd, around 3:15 pm. We have had her home for nearly three weeks now and mommy and her have started to settle in and find a routine. The baby hasn't been quite as much work as what I thought it would be up until now. However I need to find more things I can do since I need to be supporting Amanda as much as I can. Amanda has been putting up a heroic effort, but I think she is starting to get fatigued. Between letting them both get as much sleep and rest as they can, I am a bit limited on how much I get to interact with them both. They will both get used to our new home life and things will get better then.

Having a baby here at home has been all kinds of fun for me. Watching her and learning about her movements and tendencies is really cool. I am going to be pretty excited as she is able to do more and more.

I have been trying to get together a good paragraph about the new mommy for the baby book. I have a good start, but I feel that it falls short of how I think Amanda is. I can't quite get a good easy description of her that Sophia will be able to read and think "he got my mom just right." Amanda wrote the section about me perfectly before I had time to turn around and I don't want mine to seem lazy.

The job search hasn't been going real well. I have had four interviews and three of them have not worked out in my favor. The last one I had I was really excited about after I left, but I haven't heard back from the school. It was going to be really great for a couple of reasons. First, it is a salary job with a benefit schedule and options. Second, I would have small classes and a 90 minute planning period. Third, it would give Amanda and me the chance to see if we want to live here or move elsewhere. Fourth, it wouldn't give me as much flexibility with farming as what I have now. I just can't be sure that farming and agriculture are the career that is going to provide for my family anymore.